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CI/CD Pipelines: Monorepos, Templates, and Maintainability/GitHub path filters

Run workflows only when selected folders change.

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Section: Avoid running everything on every change

GitHub path filters

yaml
yaml
on:
  push:
    paths:
      - 'apps/web/**'
      - 'packages/ui/**'
      - '.github/workflows/web.yml'
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Path filters are one of the easiest ways to cut CI minutes in monorepos.

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